“I Felt Like My Life Had Been Given to Me to Start Over”: Alice Kaplan’s Language Memoir, French Lessons

Alice Kaplan’s memoir French Lessons (1993) is a story that deals as much with the issue of language learning as with that of cultural belonging(s). This “language memoir,” as it is typical of this sub-genre, is an intimate tale of the transition between languages and cultures. French Lessons recoun...

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Main Author: Eleonora Rao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-06-01
Series:Humanities
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/5/2/47